broad at the base, margins revolute above. Heads solitary 
and terminal on each branch, about 1 in. in diameter 
including the ray ; peduncles 1-8 in. long, woolly-tomentose 
at their apex. Jnvolucre narrowly campanulate ; bracts 
ciliate, the outermost ones lanceolate, about 4 in. long, the 
innermost ones linear, about 4 in. long. Ray flowers female, 
15-20. Corollalilac; tube } ta long ; limb under in. long. 
Ovary pilose. Pappus bristles in a single row, subequal or 
with one or two much shorter ones in between.  Disk- 
flowers hermaphrodite, hardly longer than the involucre. 
Corolla yellow; tube about } in. long; lobes very short. 
Anthers not tailed. Style-appendages short, deltoid —T. A. 
SPRAGUE. 
Cutrivation.—Kew is indebted for this plant to Sergt. 
Goadby, R.E., Albany, West Australia, who whilst stationed 
in that State collected specimens and seeds of many interest- 
ing plants for Kew. In 1899 he forwarded seeds of this 
Olearia, and a plant flowered in the Temperate House in 
April last year. It forms a twiggy bush of aster-like 
appearance, and is quite worthy of a place among cool 
greenhouse plants. Whether it enid thrive in the open 
air in any part of the British Islands remains to be tested. 
It is not easy to pro Waren from ria and it has failed to 
mature seeds.— W. ee 
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Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, ray-flower ; 3, disk-Alower; bristl thers ; 
6, style-arms —ali ton 4, pappus-bristle ; 5, anthers ; 
